Problem - same report different font, depending on source

Post Author: smash
CA Forum: General
Hi, thanks for any help you can give.
I have a report that when I print from the crystal designer, it prints exactly like I want it. The report is using a Courier 10cpi font. When I export to pdf or export directly to the printer, the report is printed with an Arial font. I have the courier on the server and the client machines and I am printing to a IBM 6500 feed printer.
Anyone have a clue on why these might be printing differently?
Thanks

Thanks, will do, but I am a little doubtful it is
fixed by 9.2.0.8 because it works on one of our
9.2.0.7 environments... Although if it is a statistics issue, it's likely a corner case, so you have to have a number of things in alignment. It's quite possible that, for example, two systems have identical structures and identical data but slightly different query plans because the data in one table is physically ordered differently on one system than in another which slightly changes the clustering_factor of an index which causes the CBO to use that index on one system and not on another. You may also end up with slightly different statistics because you have histograms on a column in one system and not in another.
Looks like we are going to 9.2.0.8 anyway because of
the end-of-life service support forcing us to go to
9.2.0.8 anyway.If it reproduces on 9.2.0.8 (and I'd tend to suspect it will), it's certainly worth raising an issue. Unless you have an extended support contract, though, I wouldn't hold out a lot of hope for a patch if this isn't already fixed, since 9.2 leaves Premier Support at the end of the month...
Justin

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